I had this same problem and got round it by transforming the symlink into it's real location before running xcodebuild, this then worked for me eg TMPDIR=$(cd -P "$TMPDIR" && pwd) xcodebuild -create-xcframework -framework $TMPDIR/Hello.framework -output Hello.xcframework

I had this same problem and got round it by transforming the symlink into it's real location before running xcodebuild, this then worked for me eg TMPDIR=$(cd -P "$TMPDIR" && pwd) xcodebuild -create-xcframework -framework $TMPDIR/Hello.framework -output Hello.xcframework